/uses

What I actually use

Inspired by uses.tech. Only tools I touch every day make this list. No theoretical stack.

Hardware

MacBook: Apple Silicon, daily driver. Runs the whole stack including a native arm64 Arch VM in UTM for Linux work.
Stripe Terminal BBPOS WisePOS E: In-person card reader. Same hardware running at the indoor play center. I build for it and use it.

Cursor / VS Code: Cursor for AI-pair work, VS Code for everything else. shadcn/ui snippets, Prisma extension, ESLint, TypeScript-strict project settings.
Claude Code — PR #1545: Anthropic's CLI agent. Used end-to-end on production Zany's code, the PartyBook SaaS, open-source PRs, this site. The one I just sent a PR back to.

Ghostty: Catppuccin Mocha, JetBrains Mono 14pt, splits and tabs.
zsh + Starship: Minimal prompt: git status, runtime, command duration. Config at ~/.config/starship.toml.
Atuin: Shell history search bound to Ctrl+R. Synced across machines.
Zoxide: Smart cd. The `z` command is the only navigation I use anymore.
Rectangle: Window tiling. Ctrl+Option+U/I/J/K for quadrants. The most-used app on the Mac.
gh CLI: GitHub from the terminal. PRs, issues, releases, repo creation. The web UI is for review only.

TypeScript + Next.js 16: App Router, server components, edge auth, real production deploys. Powers book.zanysplayworld.com, partybook-saas, clintphillips.dev, agentscreens, worktree, reverseturk.
Postgres + Prisma: 50 models in the Zany's schema, CUID IDs, cascade rules carefully chosen. Migrations via Supabase MCP when prisma migrate times out.
Tailwind 4: Plus shadcn/ui + radix-ui primitives for accessible components. Skip a design system that doesn't ship code.
Go, Python, Rust, Bash: Polyglot when it's the right tool. Recent: Go feature in stripe-cli, Python fix in anthropic-sdk-python, Bash patch to Arch filesystem package, kernel docs via git send-email.

Vercel: All the Next.js sites. CLI deploys (vercel --prod), git auto-deploy disabled because double-builds doubled the bill once.
Supabase: Postgres + Storage. RLS-deny-all on Prisma-only projects so the data plane is safe regardless of any anon-key exposure. Three projects across zanyplayworld / partybook-saas / zanyssalon.
Stripe: Checkout, Payment Intents, Terminal SDK, Connect, webhooks. API v2025-02-24. $76,725 processed in production, 0.05% refund rate. Idempotent on the event id.
Resend + Twilio: Transactional email (Resend) and SMS (Twilio). Resend templates with PDF attachments via pdfkit.
Upstash Redis: Edge rate limiting for the booking flows.

UTM + Arch Linux ARM: Native aarch64 Arch VM on Apple Silicon, HVF-accelerated. Boots via archboot. Where I test Linux-side fixes before sending patches upstream.
git send-email: For LKML-style patches. The Linux kernel doesn't take GitHub PRs; you mail patches to maintainers + the relevant list. Configured against Gmail SMTP with an App Password.

npm 0xdeadd — on npm: `npx 0xdeadd` prints a card from any terminal on earth. Hand-rolled ANSI, no dependencies, single file.
OpenClaw — github.com/0xdeadd/openclaw: My personal-AI-assistant framework. stripe-status is one of its skills.